Fettle

19 April 2005
Tuesday, 10:39 AM

our dear grandmother
seems to be in fine fettle
despite her goiter

four friends felt fettle
frolicking for foolishness,
& frivolous fun

Steel furnace stages:
charge, melt, half-melt, oxidise,
reduce, tap, fettle.

Weary of wanking,
young Chauncey runs upstairs to
fettle his sister.

in settled fettle,
Rhett'll soon test his mettle
in Gretel's shtetl.

Only the strong are
in fine fettle after they
stub their toe at night.